Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…

Was Alice well chuffed about Dick looking proper smart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, chuff, look · To what, where: Alice

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Alice	cop
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chuffed	nsubj
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 chuffed	advmod
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 Dick	case
6	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chuffed	obl
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 chuffed	advcl
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 smart	amod
9	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looking	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Alice		tree rules
2	chuff	past	Alice		about Dick; well property	tree rules
3	look	gerund	Alice not said here		smart property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she thought he looked silly in his new clothes and wanted a different man entirely

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looked	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 clothes	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 clothes	nmod:poss
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clothes	amod
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 silly	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wanted	obj
17	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	13 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	look	past	he		silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	want	past	she not said here	a different man	entirely property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she fancied him a lot, because he had become handsome and genteel at last

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fancied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fancied	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 become	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 become	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
12	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fancied	conj
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 become	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 genteel	cc
15	genteel	genteel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 become	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 genteel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	she	him = he				a lot obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	become	past · perfect	he					genteel, handsome property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she fancied him, cos he was genteel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fancied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fancied	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 genteel	punct
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 genteel	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 genteel	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 genteel	cop
10	genteel	genteel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fancied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	she	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is	past	he					genteel property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he was still in his old rags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 rags	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rags	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rags	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	9 rags	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 rags	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rags	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rags	amod
9	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			his old rags	still		tree rules

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